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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

    Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a way with BVIR "Physical Volume Status Information" to display whether a PVOL has the RELABEL flag set or not

    We quite often use the LI REQ, LVOL, RELABEL command since we are moving the COPY EXPORT VOLSER Range from Cluster 4 to our new Cluster 3. However, due to timing issues sometimes the affected PVOLs are going into readonly (internal/expternal label...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Add additional fields to BVIR "Volume Status Information" report

    Within the TS7700 when customer are moving to a new tape drive generation or to a new media generation they are often introducing a new pool and reclaim the existing data from the existing pool to the new pool. This is a common and IBM recommended...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

    Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Please add ACME Client for TSSC

    Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

    TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Check and Validate data on Export media

    There is a government regulation for checking information on external physical tapes. External tape information can now only be checked on a single and clean cluster that is not in the grid and we can't do any data validation on exported media.
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

    This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Add an 'absolute' logout option for the VTS Management interface

    Due to more restrictive security requirements we're asking to have an addition logout option for the VTS Management Interface. In addition to the session timeout option add an absolute timeout option. Whether the session is idle or not have the op...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

    When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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